Klaus Wiedner, head of the insurance and pensions unit at the European Commission, has the task of brokering a deal on Omnibus II. As negotiations go down to the wire, he rebuts criticism that too m...

Yoshihiro Kawai, secretary-general of the International Association of Insurance Supervisors, is the man in charge of building a new supervisory framework for both systemically important and interna...

A quant at Citi has revived debate about the changing nature of the profession (www.risk.net/2417747). The scope is narrower, he claims; the job has been dumbed down, and today's quants are little more than programmers. Is he right?